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From: Michael Zucchi <notzed@gmail.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: jfs, jfsutils?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:19:26 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dd69cac-a54c-ca61-0e8a-440a87aab099@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0c2ba522-31a4-c423-bceb-ccd59ae03042@gmail.com>


It's an acronym of Journaled File System.  It was written by IBM and has 
been in Linux since 2002.

On 12/12/19 9:08 am, Josh wrote:
> Could you catch me up on what "jfs" is?
>
> On 12/11/19 5:31 PM, Michael Zucchi wrote:
>>
>> Morning,
>>
>> I just built a new computer and thought i'd give guix a go but after 
>> finally getting everything working to the install stage ... I hit a 
>> personal showstopper - no jfs support whatsoever. It's mostly an 
>> afterthought on every other distribution but this was a surprise.
>>
>> Any reason for this or is it just that nobody thought of it?
>>
>> Anyway, I just ended up installing slackware-current and have then 
>> installed guix atop that, to grab a few packages and to get more 
>> familiar with it.  I would probably have had to do that anyway as it 
>> was probably too much to learn at once but I currently have a lot of 
>> spare time to fill, so tried guix first.
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Z
>>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-11 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-11 22:31 jfs, jfsutils? Michael Zucchi
2019-12-11 22:38 ` Josh
2019-12-11 23:49   ` Michael Zucchi [this message]
2019-12-11 23:57 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-12  1:41   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-12  3:18     ` Michael Zucchi
2019-12-13 14:31       ` Joshua Branson
2019-12-13 16:07       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-13 16:23         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-14  1:15         ` Michael Zucchi
2019-12-30 23:38   ` Michael Zucchi
2019-12-31  0:42     ` Josh Marshall
2019-12-31  6:26       ` Michael Zucchi
2020-01-05 19:04         ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-06  7:20           ` Michael Zucchi
2019-12-13 14:33 ` Packing bcachefs " Joshua Branson
2019-12-13 15:32   ` Packaging bcachefs Tobias Geerinckx-Rice

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